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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History Of Herodotus, by Herodotus
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Title: The History Of Herodotus
Volume 1(of 2)
Author: Herodotus
Translator: G. C. Macaulay
Release Date: July, 2001 [Etext #2707]
Posting Dare: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger
THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS
By Herodotus
Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME I.
{e Herodotou diathesis en apasin epieikes, kai tois men agathois
sunedomene, tois de kakois sunalgousa}.Dion. Halic.
{monos ’Erodotos ’Omerikhotatos egeneto}.Longinus.
PREPARER’S NOTE
This text was prepared from an edition dated 1890, published by
MacMillan and Co., London and New York.
Greek text has been transliterated and marked with brackets, as in
the opening citation above.
PREFACE
If a new translation of Herodotus does not justify itself, it will
hardly be justified in a preface; therefore the question whether it was
needed may be left here without discussion. The aim of the translator
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has been above all things faithfulnessfaithfulness to the manner of
expression and to the structure of sentences, as well as to the meaning
of the Author. At the same time it is conceived that the freedom and
variety of Herodotus is not always best reproduced by such severe
consistency of rendering as is perhaps desirable in the case of the Epic
writers before and the philosophical writers after his time: nor again
must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced
in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the
affectati...